10 New D&D 4E Combat Actions

D&D 4E With Enhanced Drama & Tactical Depth

The standard D&D 4E core rules provide just 20 general combat actions. These are: Use an Action Point, Aid Another, Basic Attack, Bull Rush, Charge, Coup de Grace, Crawl, Delay, Escape, Grab, Opportunity Attack, Ready an Action, Run, Second Wind, Shift, Squeeze, Stand Up, Total Defense, Use a Power, and Walk. That's the full menu of what you can do in a D&D 4E combat encounter.

Enhanced 4E: Combat in Motion, by adding 10 new actions, increases the tactical depth of the D&D 4E game by a whole additional half.

The 10 new D&D 4E actions of Enhanced 4E: Combat in Motion make table-top combat more dramatic and more involving. Some actions, for the first time, enable D&D 4E gaming groups to model on the battle-grid options and scenarios hitherto present in the imagination but omitted from the core rules. Other actions empower D&D 4E players to act more often and with greater flexibility than the core rules alone allow. These new actions make D&D 4E combat faster and keep players engaged even when it isn’t their turn. Even when targeted by an attack, Enhanced 4E players may take actions that impact the outcome of the fight.

The new combat actions of Enhanced 4E: Combat in Motion are as follows:

• Sprint: Running no longer makes you an easy target.
• Halt: Instantly returns you to a motionless state from high speed and in-motion.
• Interdict: Ranged attackers always have a missile ready when an enemy makes a run for it.
• Outpace: A charging enemy can’t so easily catch you flat-footed.
• Ripost: Make multiple melee basic attacks per round.
• Evade: Retreat to reduce damage when your Armor Class or Reflex defense is targeted.
• Press: Keep that evading enemy on the defensive.
• Brace: Reduce damage when your Fortitude or Will defense is targeted.
• Collapse: End the tyranny of automatic damage (players, monsters and minions now must be “hit” to be reduced to zero Hit Points).
• Cower: When all else fails.

Of course this list but scratches the surface of how each of these actions can be employed in-game.

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